Chinese Domain Name Registration

Chinese domain names registration

Ministry of information Industry has lately issued a “Notice on Chinese domain name Management” to further improve the Chinese web site name system, homogenize Chinese domain name registration service, and thus realizing the healthy development of web and maintaining the rights and interests of web users.

A ‘Domain Name’ is a name by which a company or organization is known online, corresponding to web’s IP. It is the key step of users’ access to the internet. The Chinese domain name refers back to the one written in Chinese personality and ended up with “cn”, “org” or “net”, a vital part in the forming of the Chinese domain name system.

To energetically push forward the development of information resources on the Chinese network, popularize the use of internet and speed up the appliance of Chinese domain name, CNNIC launched the testing system for the Chinese domain name registration and started the registration service in the beginning of the current year.

According to the notice, the Chinese domain name registration contains 3 parts, namely registration management, registration service and agency. The management is in control of administration and upkeep of Chinese domain name registration and central databank ; the service unit in charge of receiving application and performing domain name registration while the agency can only accept and provide domain name registration as permitted by the registration management.

The CNNIC, as licensed by the Ministry of information Industry, is a management unit in control of the Chinese domain name registration.

Those, as controlled in the notice, who are going to handle Chinese domain name registration service or provide acting service in China shall need to be ratified by the Ministry of info Industry. And no organization or individual shall be allowed to engage in registration management, service or acting activity of Chinese domain names without permission.